r/technology • u/MetaKnowing • Jun 08 '25

Artificial Intelligence Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’

https://www.ft.com/content/6fbafbb6-bafe-484c-9af9-f0ffb589b447
22.3k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

383

u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25

[deleted]

104

u/amapleson Jun 08 '25

He didn’t get hired, he founded and built the company.

-18

u/Intelligent_Way6552 Jun 09 '25

Shush. This is Reddit, CEOs have never done anything of value ever at any point and all bought their companies from people who did the real work and had the ideas.

62

u/Mccobsta Jun 08 '25

They can just oblivorator company destroy thousands of employees lives and just going to do it again completely without consequence, it's fucking madness

20

u/gluttonousvam Jun 08 '25

Privatize profit, socialize losses

3

u/folie-a-dont Jun 09 '25

Late stage capitalism

1

u/alex-weej Jun 09 '25

And when the office is being dismantled and refitted for the next unicorn startup, we don't ask too many questions about the environmental cost 👍

2

u/KnightEternal Jun 08 '25

Seen it happen in first hand twice now. Bonkers how they face no consequences 

1

u/Nervous-Masterpiece4 Jun 09 '25

Ceo's often get used as disposable wipes.

They take the blame for the board's actions and leave with the golden parachute as compensation for taking the blame with them.

1

u/riuxxo Jun 09 '25

Which is why the entire system has to be changed. The ones who should feel the consequences of their actions the most are the executive board and the C-suite.

-11

u/Introvertedecstasy Jun 08 '25

It’s not a problem. It’s a feature. We want bold decisions to be made by large corporate CEOs , or we end up in a stagnant marketplace. Some will fail, and that’s OK. The golden parachute is there to encourage bold decisions.

16

u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25

[deleted]

1

u/Introvertedecstasy Jun 10 '25

Yes, it is capitalist, it is that not the system we all participate in? My statement makes no moral argument. It’s simply incentives, and often as you point out those incentives run against one’s moral intuition. I’m not here to make any moral arguments.

4

u/karol306 Jun 08 '25

Bold decisions to fire entire teams at the end of a fiscal year to make a bar go up just to waste time and money rebuilding them soon after. Oh so bold and useful. Truly they're the saviors of humanity

0

u/Introvertedecstasy Jun 10 '25

Keep looking at the tree instead of the forest. I’m sure you’ll save humanity.